The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.